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post #16 of 270
10/22/09 at 12:40am
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Originally Posted by reorx View Post
a resounding HELL YEAH to Animal Collective. Yup, all their albums suck.

Christmas at the Zoo is one of my all time favorite songs.

The Backstreet Boys made AWESOME pop music. Infinitely singable and catchy as hell
I listened to a few of the tracks on Merriweather Post Pavilion and I didn't like any of them. My Girls was passable, but I found Brother Sport and Summertime Clothes boring.

Christmas at the Zoo is one of my favorites too. Really fun song, better than just about every other Flaming Lips song. Unfortunately most of the other tracks on Clouds Taste Metallic don't justify a purchase for me, but I might pick it up after I get Yoshimi.

I loved The Backstreet Boys when I was around 10. Haven't listened to them again since. Maybe I should
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post #17 of 270
10/22/09 at 12:42am
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Originally Posted by roadtonowhere08 View Post
fuseboxx:
I think the "heyday" of rock (1950's-1970's) is a nostalgic love-fest by middle-aged baby boomers and easily led gen-X and gen-Y people who are too damn lazy to look for the outstanding music that is being put out today. It's called the internet, use it.
+3.14159

Everytime I hear someone lament how no one makes good music anymore I feel impelled to do unspeakable violence. Do these people ever leave their houses?
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post #18 of 270
10/22/09 at 12:42am
Never liked Led Zeppelin or the Beatles. I hate the Sex Pistols! but like almost every other punk band I have heard.
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post #19 of 270
10/22/09 at 12:47am
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Originally Posted by festivus528 View Post
I can't make it all the way through Dark Side of the Moon. The Great Gig in the Sky makes me want to shove paperclips up my ears (talk about the punishment fitting the crime). Wish You Were Here is one of my favorite albums, however.
Oh c'mon! Best. Pink Floyd. Song.

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Okay... 2nd best after WYWH...

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Originally Posted by reorx View Post
The New Pornographers have ONE GOOD SONG (The Laws Have Changed). Everything else is meh.
This statement makes me want to crawl up to a corner a shed indie tears...

That entire stretch on Twin Cinema from "Use It" to "Sing Me Spanish Techno" is perfect.
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post #20 of 270
10/22/09 at 12:57am
Leonard Cohen's Songs *is* a bit overrated--especially insofar as it has been and occasionally is touted as profound. It's got a coupla ketchy tunes on it though. By contrast, his vicious Songs of Love and Hate is underrated, though it's unrelentingly depressed and besmeared with self-loathing. Neat.

What they say about how it would be great if Led Zeppelin would be much better if we had hadn't heard the songs a million times already is true. If I could only hear LZ IV with the fresh and unfettered ears of a child, I might like it almost as much as The James Gang's Miami. But Miami's got better songs.

A pal in Dublin gave me a cd of Blonde on Blonde for my birthday. On his, I gave him ZZ Top's Tres Hombres. A few weeks later, we swapped, and it was one of the most satisfying deals I've ever made. For me, the moral is that if I had to burn a master-tape of Bob Dylan singing to save a ZZ Top album, I'd bring liter fluid to the barbecue. Because the world would be a much better place if we could just go back in time to every sit-in that had a sing-along to "The Times They are A-changin'" and change it to a rousing, drunken chorus of "Cheap Sunglasses."
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post #21 of 270
10/22/09 at 1:00am
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The New Pornographers have ONE GOOD SONG (The Laws Have Changed). Everything else is meh.
I'd get on board with that if it just said the only good songs are Neko's. Carl Newman is pretty insufferable.
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post #22 of 270
10/22/09 at 1:05am
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Originally Posted by Spaceman_Spiff View Post
+3.14159

Everytime I hear someone lament how no one makes good music anymore I feel impelled to do unspeakable violence. Do these people ever leave their houses?
That's not true: the current generation of post-rock artists are truly gifted instrumentalists with a sound ear for the musical hook. But 99% can't write a lyric worth listening to, and beyond the fact that most of them can't read [--bragging that you're the heir of Charles Bukowski at a coffee shop when you're sixteen doesn't qualify as reading--] they are limited to emoting incoherent surrealism and facile allegories because most of them don't have anything worth saying.

But they're damn fine musicians--I'll give 'em that.
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post #23 of 270
10/22/09 at 1:19am
Rap/hip-hop went from vital and interesting, to a formula, to a cliché, and is now clearly
self-parody.

And the fans seem not to have noticed.
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post #24 of 270
10/22/09 at 1:24am
mozart

i dislike his music
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post #25 of 270
10/22/09 at 1:30am
What a phenomenal thread. I disagree with so much of it, and yet those same people say things I believe with every fiber of my being. Wonderful stuff.

For my part, I hate the music of my youth, by and large. Nirvana is boring. They were never inspirational to me. Pearl Jam is even worse. I like their new album more than any previous. Pretty much everything that came out Seattle around that time rubs me wrong, it would seem, much as I love what has come out of Seattle since.

Classic rock gets one year older and staler every year. I think it's possible that something so fleeting as rock music cannot, in fact, have "classics" at all. Certainly, most of the people who stand for "rock" today are more stuck up than their parents were at their age.
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post #26 of 270
10/22/09 at 1:42am
oh ya, also Jimi Hendrix *hides behind flame shield* I admit he did a lot for rock,, and he was a good guartist... but from what I've heard I'm just not the big a fan of his music(well, also most music in that genere) even though its good music,it usually just isn't for me.

I can also understand the dislike of dream theater, I think they make some great music, I just can't get into a lot of the time.
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post #27 of 270
10/22/09 at 1:43am
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What a phenomenal thread. I disagree with so much of it, and yet those same people say things I believe with every fiber of my being. Wonderful stuff.
That right there is the essence of this thread. People not caring about what others think and speaking their mind about their beliefs in music. So many times, people are beaten into silence or are convinced to go with the flow of conventional beliefs. It gets boring, stagnant, and disingenuous.

I really like the fact that people can say their wildest (yet sincere) beliefs without having the thread dragged into proving matches and "here's where you are wrong..." discussions. There is a time for backing up claims, but this is not it, and I love it.
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post #28 of 270
10/22/09 at 1:46am
on slightly related, non-thread, dream theater note can anybody give me a good, easy to get behind/understandable concept/"story line" album? Slower paced stuff is fine, but would slightly prefer more of a heavy/death metal speed/sound.
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post #29 of 270
10/22/09 at 1:56am
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Originally Posted by muxenle View Post
on slightly related, non-thread, dream theater note can anybody give me a good, easy to get behind/understandable concept/"story line" album? Slower paced stuff is fine, but would slightly prefer more of a heavy/death metal speed/sound.
How about Mastodon's "Blood Mountain"? The concept is climbing a mountain for a skull or something. Fun as hell.

Really, though, keep the crazy coming. I love this.
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post #30 of 270
10/22/09 at 1:57am
i think radiohead is overrated. The best rappers are now dead. Dream theaters new album is irritating.
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